"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."

-- Octavia Butler

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.”

Source : "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden". Interview with Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.
“Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.”
“Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.”

Source : "Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society".
“I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.”
“Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.”
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
“Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.”
“the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.”

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